Each one of the linear images taken to create the works in Art of Tone are too small to be perceived by the naked eye. When tens of thousands of them are laced together through algorithmic software they reconstruct an event as a semblance of an object in motion. The result is a fluidity of a body through a full range of motion, revealing the path and history embedded within a specific space over an event period.
Addressing the retinal complex as a matrix of sensors, which are constantly active in sight, I was interested in isolating a single rod or cone (in this case a single row of sensors) in order to create a singular perspective through time. For this I designed a device, which embodies a variety of materials including bits of a heart defibrillator, lenses ground from lead crystal prisms, and one of my first homemade rectilinear photosensitive cells. What it offers is a perspective in space and time that our complex retinas, eyes, do not allow us to consciously perceive. It allows for performative actions to be captured in their entirety within the space of a single frame. The next step in this process is to construct a 3rd axis of perspective in a linear scanning array using refractional geometry to reconstruct a fourth dimensional representation of kinesthetic action as a diagnostic tool.
